Combining Intensive Rehabilitation With a Nonfunctional Isokinetic Strengthening Program in Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cerebral palsy is the most common brain injury in the pediatric population. Patients with cerebral palsy present different affectations such as decreased muscle strength, gait deviations, impaired proprioception, and spasticity. Isokinetic strengthening programs combined with intensive rehabilitation may improve muscle strength and therefore gait efficiency.

Objective

The primary aim of this randomized controlled trial is to compare the effect of an intensive rehabilitation combined with a nonfunctional isokinetic progressive strengthening program to an intensive rehabilitation alone on gait parameters and muscle strength in patients with cerebral palsy. Another goal of this study is to determine whether adding an isokinetic program to intensive rehabilitation is

SUBMITTER: Guerin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10193213 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature